Monthly Archives: February 2010

Call It The Teabag Terror

Frank Rich says what needed to be said: Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto … Continue reading

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Inhofe Logic

At Grist.com, Amanda Little has a revelatory interview with Sen. James Inhofe. Among the highlights: Inhofe says the United Nations and the International Panel of Climate Change are perpetrating a massive fraud. And yet the ice melts… Occam’s Razor never … Continue reading

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Aquarian Global Warming

The South Dakota house has passed a resolution that school students should learn about “astrological” causes for global warming. You can’t make this stuff up: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the … Continue reading

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Saturday Afternoon TV

Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism

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Jim Bunning Provides

My girlfriend’s mother is still recovering from her car wreck in December. She was due to start a new job the next day, but of course she’s now unemployed — and as a result of the accident, she will probably … Continue reading

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Most Wanted Hack

My Ten Most Wanted list of shills, hacks, and mixed nuts has a new member: Patrick Michaels, pictured on the right, is the energy industry’s go-to “climatologist.” Mother Jones has a thorough disposal here. My favorite section is the part … Continue reading

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Maddow’s Deconstruction

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What Harry Reid Can Do

Start the right conversation:

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Tweety Does Good

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Goodbye To The Hummer

General Motors has given up on selling the Hummer brand to China. Meanwhile, the Army will not buy any more of them after 2011 as they move to mine- and rocket-resistant vehicles. As one of those procurement decisions made under … Continue reading

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Gibson’s Law Strikes Again

The first thing down the memory-hole is the existence of a memory-hole. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy — the man in charge of Australian internet censorship — has been caught censoring his own government site with a script that removes references … Continue reading

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